Case study

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere: PlayStation recompilation and Android port

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere is a PlayStation game reconstruction that documents the European and US discs, asset formats and executable code, then translates MIPS code to C for native builds. It also provides an Android APK that reads a player's own disc image through an interpreter. The author reports function-level validation and playable missions while native recompilation remains in progress.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 10
Last commit: 2026-10-26
Language: C

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A personal European or US Ace Combat 3 disc image is required; disc images are not distributed.
Prerequisites: Python 3 is required for the current tools.
Prerequisites: The Android slice build requires an Android SDK and NDK and a JDK.
Limits: Native recompilation is in progress; the author reports that a one-to-one DuckStation comparison remains pending.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{ace-combat-3-electrosphere-case,
  title = {{Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere: PlayStation recompilation and Android port}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/vzepec/ac3-decomp}},
  url = {https://github.com/vzepec/ac3-decomp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ace-combat-3-electrosphere-case/}}
}

Plain text

Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere: PlayStation recompilation and Android port. https://github.com/vzepec/ac3-decomp (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ace-combat-3-electrosphere-case/

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README.md GitHub · vzepec/ac3-decomp · Revision d155696
android/README.md GitHub · vzepec/ac3-decomp · Revision d155696